At a public dinner given to General Harrison, when he was a candidate for the office of President of the United States, one of the guests, rather conspicuously, "drank to his health." The general pledged his toast by drinking water. Another gentleman offered a toast, and said, "General, will you favor me by drinking a glass of wine?" The general, in a very gentlemanly way, begged to be excused. He was again urged to join in a glass of wine. This was too much. He rose from his seat, and said, in the most dignified manner:— "Gentlemen, I have twice refused to partake of the wine-cup. I hope that will be sufficient. Tho you press the matter ever so much, not a drop shall pass my lips. I made a resolve when I started in life that I would avoid strong drink. That vow I have never broken. I am one of a class of seventeen young men who graduated at college together. The other sixteen members of my class now fill drunkard's graves—and all from the pernicious habit of wine-drinking. I owe all my health, my happiness, and prosperity to that resolution. Would you urge me to break it now?" The effect on the company may be imagined.—Selected.